when, why did they have all the time? i should just search the day and take them out where the this is the building and you slice from the land. south korea's opposition denounced a swift decision on the future of the country's precedent. the old fuck you will was suspended from office. i'm so lawmakers voted to impeach him on stuff today. south korea's constitutional court now has to decide if you should be permanently removed from power. i'm also coming up america's top. diplomats, as us officials have been in direct contact with the rebels who is now in charge of syria as western an arab states. together with tech he for support for our united syria and more protest in georgia. following the election of the new president's pro, you demonstrate to is riley outside called him in as the outgoing president refuses

to step down the . i'm going to jones good to have you with us. and we're starting in south korea where the countries opposition has edge the constitutional court to quickly give its ruling on the future of president use like you'll on south today, a south korean lawmakers voted to impeach the president over his flushed motion. the attempt, she has been suspended. why the countries popcorn decide whether to remove him from office office they should lead to the game. young said in a press conference, that's a swift decision by the most will help alleviate the national to him while joe, he, john, is a professional off. lo and i asked her earlier about the challenges now facing the

constitutional court as of now to sites on humans political future. indeed, thanks for letting me at the constitutional quotes and actually consists of 9 justices. however, currently that down to 6, only because the president has it has actually refused school, i should say in peach, for the former president has refused to make appointments of the vacant 3 seats. and the constitution says that for a in an impeachment decision, you need 6 justices to make the routing that you, you have to have at least 6 judges agreeing either to deny the motion or to, to cost the motion, the resolution team page. and so you, you actually have to ensure that the sitting 6 justices make a unanimous decision. but that's still going to have some clout of it in terms of legitimacy because it doesn't actually have the full bench. however, in the past,

in 2016 when the president talked, been hey, was engaged, we only had 8 justices, and it was a unanimous ruling. but 6 as opposed to 8, is still a small number, although they were legal grounds to make the decisions. so that's one big challenge, stems of legal issues. however, this is a very clear cut case and i think any lawyer work that's sold if they have any real basis in greece in reason and in reality, right will have a very difficult time to reject this resolution to engage so into so substantively just just just because you said something, you said that the you want refused to a point 3 most judges. and we also know that the impeachment vote came about because of the, the martial law that he introduced. so are there any criminal charges waiting for

him as well? what's his decision to introduce martial against the law or what's going on? or? oh, absolutely. so you did not introduce marshall. he tried to declare an emergency motion law which was unconstitutional. and it's really, you should describe it more as a self who rather than 8 bucks marshall attend because that's what it was. so he refused to the point justices who had normally nitrate by the national assembly because they didn't really suit his taste. he wants it, there's a point, he's people basically, but he wasn't able to do so. so he left the receipts vacant, but that is being corrected as and plus the fact that the justices will have the opportunity to consider the constitutional case. and alongside that they will be criminal charges pressed against or against you. and

for the interaction, which is what the sales crew amounted to, basically, he was up ending the constitutional order of the nation. and that amounts to insurrection, or treason, for which he has no email, etc, and he can be arrested immediately. all right, i'm afraid we'll have to leave it there, but thank you very much, joe. he john from the souls. thank you so much for your insights. thank you. are you a secretary of state? antony blinked and says, american officials have been in, quote, direct contact with highest heavier alshaun or h t s. that's the rebel group now in charge of the country by designated to tell her wrists about to a designated to terrorist by the us and of us. i think and has been in jordan for adults, with officials from several arab countries techie as well as the e. u and the united nations. they've agreed to support a peaceful transition to process a process and syria and the countries and you rebel leaders to protect citizens,

right. as long as group h t. s has promised to govern inclusive play of to topic the shot, all a subs dictatorship. a week ago and did the use a abraham is in the syrian capital, damascus. she told me what the mood is like the one week off to a rebel forces toppled to the south regime very much for it as was the case about a week ago. but we are at the beginning of the week. and as you can see behind me, the damascus traffic is now coming back in full force. and we can see everywhere as we walk through the streets of devices, the normal like some kind of normal seats coming back, schools are reopening today. universities are reopening a subsidies have been lifted off. the price of transportation has gone off, but at the same time, inflation has gone down at the same time with the sort of $1.00 certain situation.

but this new government that might bring there are of course, the arguing concerns from the minorities, for example, what the new syria could mean for them. because even though the h t s has an h t s leadership, the making, who says general statements about what the new government will look like specifics we've yet to hear a specifics, but so far things are coming back to the one thing that you would normally see here is people like me able to do their job on the street for either a lot of years as well. and so that, that is something monica that would have just simply been unbelievable. a week ago, the amount of journalists would be on the streets getting a sense of what life is like. this was simply on sort of under the side, reaching time now to take a look at. so i'm almost always making headlines around the world. us broadcast to abc and use us to pay donald trump's presidential library. $15000000.00 to set the

foundation case. abc present a george stephanopoulos accurately assessment on f. a trans had been found liable for. right. it's the latest in a string of legal wins for the us president elect since it's election victory. last month. a gun man has killed 2. my grandson's 2 security guards, b, as in boy o, as in french city of dunkirk. according to french media reports, a 22 year old man turned himself into authorities following the shooting. the suspect claimed he was the attacker and admitted to killing another person in the nearby town. alas, alia, pope francis is visiting caustic off. it's the 1st ever recorded strips to the french mediterranean islands by the hips of the catholic church. pontiff is set to meet with president in the call and told mass one of the worshippers islands off the county and coast is one of frances most the region to georgia. now where the political crisis has deepened with the appointment of

a new fall, right, president with close ties to russia on saturday night, the opponents once again must outside parliament to protest forcing authorities to postpone the switch on of christmas lights. the turmoil has been rumbling on since the ruling georgia dream poverty suspended talks on joining the european union. the incumbent president says she won't step down until new elections. i held the very few signs of the holiday season in tbilisi. popular anger has replaced seasonal cheer on the streets around george's parliament. demonstrators continued the thing, solve with police after recent election. so the moscow friendly georgia dream party claimed the vote was president on saturday, the georgia dream control problem and elected this man. miss, you have a, she'd be a former football player turned right wing politicians. the opposition few years

will steer georgia away from joining the european union to outside the apartment building. protesters cast out on how they treat these qualifications our, our garden gate uh to our election. and our president can deduct you said brother and we have got to hold us for georgia here in pub, josie, available to present the channels. he doesn't have an invitation to the president, so we're progressing this way and we are showing our diploma. we are more capable of being present because this is no to legitimate problem. they cannot say, look at president, this is not because they are breaking the law despite how they see these election today, outgoing president. so let me sort of it see the said she won't recognize the vote and called for fresh elections in order to have peace and

justice in the country. new elections and need a quote on that is why we are here. demonstrators have once again gathered for the night, the digital outside of parliament, a clear sign. they went back down as a tug of war between the government and the people continues. our correspondent douglas, as someone else k n t z told me more about the issue at the hospital. this crisis monica, this policy has an essence about the legitimacy of the georgian parliament. the incumbent, president settlements would obviously be under your position. the parties have claimed that the last general election that this saturday october was stolen or due to alleged cases of the irregularities, the voters intimidation cases of double voltage. and this is why they have been loyal to the new parliament ever since. this is why the position didn't show up to the parliament yesterday to participate in the election of the president. and this

is why they called me share a couple of students and the legitimate choice and days to look forward to the december 29th. when the term of the incumbent president officially ends, she was supposed to be the presidential policy, which was over the amount of what she was not intending to do so until the general election. and that seems to be a very tricky situation so far as the current government doesn't seem to once make way when you election. so what happens next will the situation is still developing that as a speculation at this point. but at this point, the government seems unlikely to take on this the fact that their group on powers, this firm, they've just been able to look in their candidates for the presidents yesterday. and the filters seemed to be losing the momentum at this point on the one hand to due to the violence cracked on from the government wisdom $500.00. our estimates on

the other hand was fuzzy can give people have before to secure daily for over 2 weeks. some products are sold if they are subject to hold, then the situation the president gets to the incumbent president has to mount the challenge for, for a protest around the, for additional policy on december 29th by spoken to some voters they're supposed to figure out, actually peter and ready to go the defense for us and the others. the search is the only legitimate official. however, i think she's in such scenario, she would also run risk risk of getting arrested by the government for the day. what's called an obstruction on the democratic process. and just, just briefly, if you would, for a lot of countries in particular, neighboring russia, but also the european union reacting to the situation in georgia.

yes, wisdom countries have been criticizing the conduct of the government and calling for an investigation to the outcome of the general election election in october for us as an for some piece of restrictions on georgia officials. this is you for the ministers are due to meet in brussels tomorrow to discuss the situation to come see a particularly interesting role is being played by the french president the much at all. she is mediating now between the government and the incumbent president at the local, but the local powers. here are the regional powers. iran, cherokee and russia seems to be content with the georgia power. we will not be of service who is going to congratulate the new, the elected president of so far on the armenians. every john and believers have done so he w correspondent and check our seminar ski reporting from to please see. thank you so very much i and that's all from us for now. but coming up next,

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